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World Handbook of Political and Social Indicators II, 1948-1967: Annual Event Data (ICPSR 5028)

Principal Investigator(s):Taylor, Charles Lewis; Hudson, Michael C.

Summary:

This dataset contains information on eighteen types of
political events aggregated by year to the nation level for years
1948-1967. The events included are riots, deaths from political
violence, political assassinations, armed attacks, elections, protest
demonstrations, regime support demonstrations, political strikes,
renewals of power, unsuccessful executive transfers, unsuccessful
irregular transfers, irregular power transfers, executive adjustments,
regular executive transfers, executions, acts of negative sancti... (more info)

This dataset contains information on eighteen types of
political events aggregated by year to the nation level for years
1948-1967. The events included are riots, deaths from political
violence, political assassinations, armed attacks, elections, protest
demonstrations, regime support demonstrations, political strikes,
renewals of power, unsuccessful executive transfers, unsuccessful
irregular transfers, irregular power transfers, executive adjustments,
regular executive transfers, executions, acts of negative sanctions,
acts of relaxation of political restrictions, and external
interventions. Sources are THE NEW YORK TIMES and the Associated Press.
Data were collected by the World Data Analysis Program at Yale
University.